Microsoft made the announcement at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, which took place in New York yesterday

Microsoft announced that it will help one million students from low-income families obtain broadband Internet access through a three-year commitment with the Clinton Global Initiative, which is a philanthropic organization operated by former President Bill Clinton.

According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), there are approximately 100 million people in the U.S. without access to broadband. Within that 100 million are 9.5 million students that fall into a category known as the "digitally excluded."

A lack of Internet access can negatively affect a student in today's world because many aspects of our lives are now digital. The Internet is critical for research and even communication with the teacher and other students. Many schools even have websites where parents and students can check on school events, student grades and other pertinent information. Without the Internet, children do not perform as well in school and are more likely to drop out of high school, according to All Things D.

Students without Internet access are lost in the "digital divide," which refers to the social and economic challenges some people deal with when they don't have access to the Internet that many others take for granted. Microsoft wants to help bridge that gap through the three-year commitment with Clinton. This commitment aims to provide broadband access to the Internet for school-age students in low-income families.

Microsoft made the announcement at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, which took place in New York yesterday.

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And yes, this is a Conservative blog so don't bother commenting on it. Obviously I couldn't find a Liberal one dissecting Clinton's "surplus". But the numbers come straight from the Government, and it doesn't take a mathematician to see the truth for what it is.

You cannot borrow from other budgets and claim we have a budget surplus lol. That's basically what Clinton did. And at no point in his 8 years did the national debt go down or even stay the same.

oh please you are as partisaned as FitCam. Everything said above for him applies to you too. "In this day and age, where both parties are so clearly and totally inept that an ape could see it. To take such unbending sides as you shows your lack of vision and brainpower. Anyone as partisaned as you should seriously have their head examined."

Fine, Clinton has a near surplus. At least the budget was basically balanced, and started from deficit.

I will say this to you too... "As of January 2009 when BO took office the republicans had the white house for 20 of the previous 28 years and Congress for 12 of the previous 14 years. You simply cannot continue to make the case that its all the lefts fault when the right has had the vast majority of power in modern times."

Cool... I hope you can at least agree that both sides in Washington, libs and cons are all screwed and are robbing us blind. The problems in Washington are not the fault of liberals, its the fault of all these jackasses on both sides we continue to elect and the system we allow to continue to exist.

Well my thing is when Republicans were in office all those years, we never heard this "both sides suck" thing. Like ever, it was always Republicans suck. Now that Obama has turned out to be the huge bust he is, suddenly it's the "government" that's the problem. How convenient...

Which yes I agree. When you boil down to it the "problem" is the Government is not operating within it's Constitutional boundaries. Both sides do this.

But I would be lying if I said that I don't honestly think the Socialist push in America, which is doing and has done so much great harm, is mostly coming from the Left. Sorry that's just something I firmly believe.

I dunno, I saw that both sides sucked, but to be honest, I complained mostly about Bush because he was so god-aweful. =)... I personally loved Clinton though. The only decent president in my lifetime.

As far as Socialism, I dont think its all that. Socialism is a very far cry from govt. programs that we do and the dems support. With that said, I dont agree with the programs the dems support. The problem with them isnt bad intention or that they are socialist, its that govt. is too large to be efficient and these programs waste way WAY too much money.

quote: Well my thing is when Republicans were in office all those years, we never heard this "both sides suck" thing. Like ever, it was always Republicans suck. Now that Obama has turned out to be the huge bust he is, suddenly it's the "government" that's the problem. How convenient...

Bush's legacy is the War on Terror and the Iraq War II. It'll be hard for any future US president to top the suck factor there.

Obama wants his legacy to be a single-payer health care system. He won't get it while he's in office, but he may get some credit for finally getting the country going down that road.